A "Designing for Civil Society" hi ha una llista amb 10 eines de software lliure per al activisme electrònic tretes d'un article de Dan Bashaw i Mike Gifford per a "Democracies Online Newswire".
- ActionApps (On-line Magazine/Content Sharing) http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
- PostNuke (Slash Forums/Portals) http://www.postnuke.com/
- Drupal (Blogs) http://drupal.org/
- Active (News Posting) http://www.active.org.au/doc/
- phpList (eNewsletters) http://www.phplist.com/
- phpBB (Forums) http://www.phpBB.com/
- WebCards (eCards/email2friends) http://webcards.sourceforge.net/
- TWiki (Wiki/Group Documentation) http://www.twiki.org/
- Back-End (eActions/ePetitions) http://www.back-end.org/
- FPDF (eLeaflets/ePosters) (Dynamic PDF/Graphic Generation) http://www.fpdf.org/